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Decision Making
There's a fine line between ambition and ruthlessness.
Over-reliance on experts with quick fixes has taken us too far from reality — it’s time to dispel the fairy tales.
Voltaire's wonderful satire, Candide, remains a useful work-life antidote to bogus platitudes and naive optimism.
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
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Adam Bryant interviewed over 1,000 CEOs. These are the 3 critical skills to running a company.
The innovative investor and entrepreneur deals out advice for anyone looking to follow in his footsteps.
Why has the value of strategic thinking never been higher? It’s complex.
We rightly celebrate Winston Churchill as one of the world's greatest leaders — but for all the wrong reasons.
Every opportunity seized is another lost — but not choosing is the worst choice of all.
The path of a curling stone on ice — and how it can be influenced — is a revealing metaphor for life's decisions.
We will have a better shot at improving our lives once we come to understand, know, and love the people we will one day become.
If a person stands little chance of ever being wealthy, perhaps playing the lottery is a rational decision.
"You gotta know when to fold 'em."
Intellectual humility demands that we examine our motivations for holding certain beliefs.
John Templeton Foundation
ChatGPT doesn’t understand physics, but it memorizes very well and puts in extra effort.
Human thinking is antiquated.
Find your wallet or keys — or a nuclear submarine.
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Should you confess to cheating? A Columbia ethics professor explains.
With a record-setting $1.9 billion jackpot, you'd think it's a no-brainer to buy a Powerball ticket. But the math truly shows otherwise.
"The digital HQ - the digital infrastructure that supports productivity and collaboration - actually became more important than the physical HQ."
We all want to have a good, stable relationship with somebody, says Dr. Helen Fisher. So it's important to understand how intense romantic love affects our long-term goals.
John Templeton Foundation
"Our risk-benefit analysis showed that benefits exceeded procedural risks... by up to 200 to 1."
The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
Million Stories
Gradualism rejects the idea of a "bright line" in the abortion debate.
When faced with too many choices, many of us freeze — a phenomenon known as "analysis paralysis." Why? Isn't choice a good thing?
Aristotle's ancient virtues play a vital role in today's war.
People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.
John Templeton Foundation
Will all robots think like Jeff Bezos and Mark Zuckerberg?
Researchers have created a method to help workers collaborate with artificial intelligence systems.